Software Engineering for Students A Programming Approach

234 Chapter 16 ■ Programming in the large
these objectives and comment on their validity. Assess whether they are complementary
or contradictory. If you are familiar with Ada, assess it against these aims.
16.5 Some of the stated design aims for Java are that it should be simple, object-oriented,
network-savvy, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture neutral, portable, high-performance
and dynamic.
Explain the meanings of these objectives. Assess whether they are complementary
or contradictory. If you are familiar with Java, assess it against these aims.
16.6 Take a language of your choice. Search out the design aims and explain their meaning.
Assess how well the language matches the design aims. Assess the language
against the criteria developed in this chapter.
16.7 What aims and what language features would you expect to find in a language
designed for each of the following application domains?
■ information systems
■ scientific programming
■ systems programming
■ real-time embedded systems.
16.8
How suitable is your favorite language for each of these application domains?
Compare and contrast Ada with C++.
16.9 Compare and contrast C++ with Java.
16.10 Cobol (or Fortran) is an outdated language. Discuss.
Answers to self-test questions
16.1 To use class Friday put:
import week.Friday;
To create an object of the class Friday put:
Friday friday = new Friday();
To use all the classes in the package put:
import week.*;
16.2 package database;
public class Backup